Follow on from earlier post about waters breaking

Hi all.
Sorry it’s a long post
I thought my waters had broken at 4ish this morning so called daycare when they opened. Apparently it was ‘closed’ all morning due to high admittance over night so they called at 2 and told me to come in. All day my ‘waters’ had slowly been leaking so I went in hopeful. When I got to the hospital, they did an internal and told me there was no sign of the waters having broken. Every time I move whatever liquid leaks out and is soaking pads (100% not urine as midwife said) but they’ve sent me home claiming it’s ‘discharge’ but it’s not getting any less or showing signs of stopping. Has anyone else had this where discharge which doesn’t smell and is clear has almost soaked 8 pads in a day? I’m worried about the risk of infection (which happened with my son after waters breaking) but not sure what to do. I’ll call them again in the morning but just wanted some advice

Go back!! This happened to my friend. Midwives kept telling her it was wee but she knew it wasn’t. She demanded a scan and then they confirmed it actually was her waters!! You know your body better than anyone!

I lost some earlier this week and they carried out a test, the swab your cervix and then test it. It looked likd a pregnancy test with the lines. It detects amniotic fluid and will say positive if it is. It only took 5 mins to get the result. Might be worth asking about xx

They did a speculum and couldn’t see any sign of the waters having broken, there was no ‘pool’ of liquid after resting for 10 minutes either. I’m just confused as how they could brush it off as discharge but I said if it continues over night then I will go back in the morning and they seemed happy for me to do that. I did a urine sample but they never told me the results and it’s not in my notes either.

Keep pushing. If they are busy, sadly they won’t prioritise full investigations, partly because too busy any way but partly because last thing they need is another admission. If it isn’t obviously your waters they have zero motivation to investigate further!

8 pads a day is not normal for discharge (or wee for that matter!) hang on to some and take them in with you so they can see you aren’t making it up x

Hi all. When I got on the train home, my waters broke with a gush which was so embarrassing, contractions started almost immediately and this morning our little girl was born. It was my waters that were leaking earlier, another midwife confirmed shortly after I got to the hospital x

Hi all. When I got on the train home, my waters broke with a gush which was s...

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27/09/2018

Hi all. When I got on the train home, my waters broke with a gush which was so embarrassing, contractions started almost immediately and this morning our little girl was born. It was my waters that were leaking earlier, another midwife confirmed shortly after I got to the hospital x

O (ovulation) my goodness, congratulations!!

You knew what was happening and it’s a such a shame they didn’t believe you.

It’s a good job those waters went fully ( but such a shame it happened so embarrassingly in the train 😵
So that baby could arrive safely

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